Detroit in ruins

[Lumi]

Detroit in ruins

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city. For an interactive tour of January's best photo exhibitions and books, see The New Review's month in photography

 

[Lumi]

$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US citiesOverdrawn American cities could

$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US citiesOverdrawn American cities could

$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities

Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe ? Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble

:facepalm:

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Detroit in ruins

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city. For an interactive tour of January's best photo exhibitions and books, see The New Review's month in photography

A lot of that shit closed well before the recent economic crisis. Growing up, I remember driving by those vacant buildings.....and that was when things were going well with the Big 3.

 

[Duff Miver]

Detroit was once the third largest city in the USA. It's decline started fifty years ago and became even worse over the last twenty years.

The mighty Rolls-Royce Merlin engines which powered the best of our WWII aircraft were improved and built here, by the finest automotive engineers in the world, and the finest workforce.

Abandoned and gone. One of the graveyards of the Greatest Generation.

And here, my company, the inventors of the Norden bombsite, the enigma machine, 80% of the worlds business machines, breakers of the German code, NCR-Dayton. Gawd, I loved that place.

Vanished without a trace

Old industries which were no longer needed, more efficient manufacturing methods, and finally the flight of manufacturing to low-labor cost countries.

Magnificent cities now being abandoned.

Time moves on. One day we'll see Silicon Valley abandoned.